The Office of the Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the Asian Studies Department, and the Mortara Center for International Studies are bringing distinguished scholars of India to campus to explore the wide array of political, social, historical, and economic dynamics at play as India emerges to new levels of political and economic prominence on the world's stage.

Dr. Aseema Sinha is the Wagener Chair of South Asian Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. She previously taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC.  Her research interests relate to political economy of India, India-China comparisons, International Organizations, and the rise of India as an emerging power.  She teaches courses on South Asia, Social Movements, Globalization and Developing Countries, and on Comparative Politics.  She has authored a prize-winning book, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2005). She is also an author of journal articles on federalism, subnational comparisons in India, India and China, business collective action in India, and public expenditure across Indian states.  Her articles have appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, World Development, Polity, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Business and Politics, Journal of Democracy, and India Review.  She is completing a book titled: When David Meets Goliath: How Global Markets and Rules are Shaping India's Rise to Power.